Some time around last November I hit a major "Philly wall" and really needed to get out of town. I called my mom in desperation and arranged a trip home the week of the kid's spring break as well as the week following. Just knowing that I would be getting a bit of a break helped to ease the anxiety a bit. Sometimes you just gotta skip town, ya know?
It turned out to be a wonderful and relaxing two weeks. A whole lot of playing, and reading and hula hooping happened, and we loved every minute.
My mom took us to see the dinosaur exhibit in IF. Sky's new obsession of late has been dinosaurs and I was tickled to see how interested he was in all the bones and species. They also had a children's discovery area where they could have spent all day had we let them.
This is a horrible picture, but working out with Grandpa was a nightly treat for the kids. They loved the treadmill and eliptical, maybe a bit too much. Jayda took a serious tumble on the treadmill and really junked her mouth up, I felt so bad for her.
Bless anyone's heart who will play Candy Land with kids.
This culinary delight is called Bunny Bait. It consists of popcorn, M&M's, white chocolate, pretzels and crack. I made about five batches of it while at home, thank goodness for aerobics.
Playing with the center piece. I believe they were making an omelet. Notice Sky's black fedora. He treated it like a cowboy hat which made him even cuter. Unfortunately it never made it home, there was a chocolate milk incident and it had to be thrown away.
Dying Easter Eggs with Aunt Jaclyn, an important tradition.
I was sad that we didn't get to spent Easter with Glenn this year, something I completely overlooked when making plans, but we still had a lot of fun having Easter at my parent's. The Easter bunny came that morning and afterwards the kids got to dress in their new and adorable Easter digs for church. My mom made an AMAZING Easter/birthday dinner for my dad and I (our birthday, which is on the same day, was a few weeks previous, but this way we were able to celebrate them together), and we all went to bed very stuffed and happy.
Some serious hula hooping taking place. Jayda spent a lot of time practicing her hula skills. Unfortunately I'm having a problem uploading that picture. I think this one makes an awesome substitute.
Jayda snuggling Sky. Here's what you need to know about Skyler (although I may have mentioned it before). He's an absolute delight and joy...until three o'clock hits and he's tired, and then he loses all hope and struggles to deal with life and needs a bit of TLC. We've all learned to work around this, including Jayda, who know that sometimes Sky just needs a hug and a minute to collect himself.
Pink fedora, sweet shades and sparkly Toms. Love it.
In light of our very successful ice skating trip, Jaclyn and I decided to take the kids roller skating, expecting the same result. It did not happen. Turns out it's much more painful to land on a hard floor that you don't slide into. It's also equally as hard to stay up on roller skates when you don't have a mini walker. Lesson learned.
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